ARTICLES ABOUT SEXUAL ASSAULT BY DATE - PAGE 3

One of two people questioned by Chicago police about the sexual assault of an 18-year-old woman was released without charges in the rape, while the second individual was charged with an unrelated weapons offense, authorities said. Authorities said the 17-year-old boy was charged with aggravated unlawful use of a weapon after he was found in possession of a .22-caliber handgun. A 40-year-old man was released from custody. The woman was sexually assaulted in an alley near 120th Street and Union Avenue shortly before 11 p.m. Monday.

A young woman was sexually assaulted Monday night in a Far South Side alley, authorities said. The woman was attacked shortly before 11 p.m. near West 120th Street and South Union Avenue. The victim, in her late teens, then went to a neighbor's home and called 911, authorties said. Police early this morning were questioning two men who were seen in the area shortly after the attack, authorities said. A gun was confiscated from them, but they have not been charged with any crime.

The Sun-Times reports: A woman filed a lawsuit Wednesday claiming a Schaumburg hotel employee used a master key to enter her room on April 23, 2010 and sexually assault her. Get the full story: www.suntimes.com

A girl raped by three teenagers and a 22-year-old pleaded that she was only 14 years old during an attack her assailants recorded on a cell phone camera, prosecutors said during a bond hearing today for one of the suspects. Vicente Hernandez, 22, of Cicero, was ordered held on $600,000 bail after being charged with aggravated criminal sexual assault. The three other suspects -- Alex Picallo, 16, Majeed Khalifeh, 18, and Jonathan Leanos, 19, were charged Wednesday. Police say Leanos met the girl on a MySpace page last summer, and they met several times before Leanos took her to his house on Saturday.

Surveillance images of the suspect in a sexual assault on Jan. 7. (Chicago police) Chicago police today put out an alert for a man accused of sexually assaulting a woman last week after meeting her at a bus station and convincing her to go to his Near West Side hotel room. The 33-year-old victim had just arrived in Chicago early Friday morning at the Greyhound bus terminal, 630 W. Harrison St., and was waiting for a transfer to New Jersey when the man approached her, according to the alert from Harrison Area detectives.

An alleged victim of sexual abuse spent almost three hours on the witness stand as the trial of his accused molester -- a teacher -- began Tuesday in Kane County. Robert Steck, 41, is accused of aggravated criminal sexual abuse and other charges that involved a seventh-grade student at Cowherd Middle School in east Aurora. The former student, now 18, said Steck coached him on the school wrestling team during the 2005-06 school year. Steck, who was a first-year science teacher at the school, spent time with him and eventually began bringing the youth to his Aurora home, where he sexually abused him on several occasions, the youth testified.

A man has been charged with the attempted sexual assault of a student in the Loop back in September, police said. Deandre Minor, 26, of the 800 block of West 78th Street, was charged this morning with attempted criminal sexual assault, aggravated battery to a police officer, trespassing and resisting police, according to police News Affairs. A 21-year-old woman told police that Minor came into her dorm room in the 500 block of South State Street on Sept. 21 and tried to sexually assault her, police said.

The Northwest Herald reports: Andy L. Heintzelman, 36, of the 1500 block of Wheeler Street in Woodstock has been charged with predatory criminal sexual assault of a child and battery after a girl told her parents she was abused, Woodstock police said. Get the full story: nwherald.com

An Aurora church and its former minister are the targets of a lawsuit filed by a family of a girl who say the minister sexually assaulted her on church property. The lawsuit, filed Nov. 1 in Kane County, names Lee A. Palmer and Bountiful Blessings Ministries. The suit comes in the wake of Palmer's conviction and sentencing earlier this year for predatory criminal sexual assault and aggravated criminal sexual abuse. He is currently serving a 19-year prison sentence. Palmer, 63, is alleged to have sexually assaulted the girl, who is not identified in the suit, from June 2006 through September 2008.

A River North computer engineer was found guilty today of raping a woman he met through an online dating service in 2009 but was acquitted of sexual assault in an incident that allegedly occurred two years earlier. Tuesday's ruling by Cook County Circuit Judge James Linn came after a daylong bench trial in which both women testified that Ryan Logan, 34, forced them to have sex with him after brief online relationships. Logan, who had no prior arrests, was allowed to remain free on $20,000 bail until sentencing Jan. 4. He faces 4 to 15 years in prison and will be required to register as a sex offender.